China has been all over the economic news lately. They're eating up "other peoples" (I use that term loosely) oil reserves and buying up refineries and pipelines. (though the UNoCAL bid fell through. They're beneficiaries of the "outsourcing" scourge of the US and in turn selling their goods back at rock-bottom prices. It is clear …
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Today is the final day of summer... tomorrow is the Fall Equinox... it's been a great summer, full of fun stuff. The weather hasn't been too shabby either, provided you ignore most of June and the first half of July. Here are some pictures from the last couple weeks. Lost of stuff has been going …
Or maybe we should call it... "pulling a Kim"? I dunno, anyway. Today (well, actually late yesterday... but it was Tuesday there... so it was really Tuesday... oy, i need coffee) North Korean officials indicated that the "agreement" reached yesterday would only work, and they would only rejoin the NPT etc., if they were given …
